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Safety Last! is a 1923 American silent romantic-comedy film starring Harold Lloyd. It includes one of the most famous images from the silent-film era: Lloyd clutching the hands of a large clock as he dangles from the outside of a skyscraper above moving traffic.
Feb 29, 2012 · The image of Harold Lloyd hanging desperately from the hands of a skyscraper clock during Safety Last! (1923) is one of the greatest icons in cinematic history. Using maps, aerial views, and vintage photographs, my book Silent Visions shows how Harold filmed each of his five stunt-climbing comedies within the downtown Los Angeles Historic Core,….
Sep 28, 2024 · Safety Last! (1923) is a legendary silent romantic comedy starring Harold Lloyd, and it’s best remembered for one of the most thrilling scenes in film history—Lloyd hanging from a clock face high above the city streets, with traffic rushing below.
Jun 20, 2013 · Safe at last, Harold stumbles over a parapet wall into the arms of his fiance Mildred Davis, capping his hair-raising climb up the 13 story “Bolton Building” in Safety Last! Seeking the perfect angle for each shot, Lloyd staged this brief scene atop three different buildings.
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Safety Last!, American silent film comedy, released in 1923, that was best known for its iconic image of comedian Harold Lloyd hanging from a clock atop a skyscraper.
Lloyd played an unnamed young man who poses as a department-store manager to impress his girlfriend. The plan soon goes awry, and he concocts an elaborate scheme to make his ruse appear true. The scheme mandates that Lloyd scale the side of a skyscraper as a “human fly” in the most precarious and hilarious death-defying situations imaginable. Lloyd performed many of the most dangerous stunts himself, despite having lost two fingers previously during a photography shoot in which he lit a bomb that he erroneously believed was a prop.
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Long underrated in the pantheon of great screen comic actors, Lloyd has achieved new prominence in recent years with the influence of his films on such performers as the Hong Kong actor-director Jackie Chan. Lloyd’s influence on the silent film era was inestimable—owing in part to his ability to create comedy from physical danger—and no movie illustrates this talent more than Safety Last!
•Studio: Hal Roach Studios
•Directors: Fred Newmeyer and Sam Taylor
•Writers: Hal Roach, Sam Taylor, and Tim Whelan
•Running time: 70 minutes
•Harold Lloyd (The Boy)
•Mildred Davis (The Girl)
•Bill Strother (The Pal)
•Noah Young (The Law)
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Jun 18, 2020 · Harold Lloyd in the famous clock scene from Safety Last! Yet relatively few people have seen the film it’s from – Safety Last! (1923), Harold Lloyd ’s silent comedy classic.
Aug 4, 2022 · Here's one man's account of watching the filming of the famous Harold Lloyd movie, "Safety Last." From Picture Play Magazine, July 1923.
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